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Portobelo (Modern Spanish: "Puerto Bello" ("beautiful port"), historically in Portuguese: Porto Belo) is a historic port and corregimiento in Portobelo District, Colón Province, Panama. Located on the northern part of the Isthmus of Panama , it is 32 km (20 mi) northeast of the modern port of Colón now at the Atlantic entrance to the Panama ...
The Portobelo and San Lorenzo fortifications are situated approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) from each other on Panama's Atlantic coast. Portobelo's military structures provided a security cover on the Caribbean part of the Panama harbour whereas the fortifications at San Lorenzo protected the Chagres River at its mouth. [2]
The Portobelo District [2] is one of the districts that make up the Colón Province, Panama. It covers an area of 397 km 2 , and the latest official estimate of population (for 2019) is 10,581. [ 3 ] The district capital is the town of Portobelo , the Spanish roadstead on the coast of Panama which replaced the original settlement of Nombre de ...
Agaricus bisporus, commonly known as the portobello mushroom; Porto Bello (Caribbean), a fictional British colony in the Long John Silver film and The Adventures of Long John Silver TV series
Panamá, Colón: 2017 iv, v, vi (cultural) This nomination comprises five properties, of which the sites of the Panamá City and the fortifications of Portobelo (pictured) and San Lorenzo are already listed as World Heritage Sites. The other components are the Cruces Road and the Royal Road.
Due to a storm, the ship was forced to dock at Portobelo. When the ship was scheduled to depart, a sudden storm set in, preventing the ship to set sail; this happened repeatedly. Attributing this phenomenon to the statue, the superstitious sailors threw the box containing the statue into the sea and thereafter the storm subsided, and the ship ...
The Academy bars winners from profiting off the sales of their Oscar statues, in an effort "to preserve the integrity of the Oscar symbol," according to the organization's website.
The Capture of Portobello was a military event during the long ongoing Anglo–Spanish War of 1585-1604, in which an English naval expedition under the command of privateer William Parker (died 1618), of Plymouth, assaulted and took the seaport town of Portobelo at Colon on the eastern / northern coast of Panama / Isthmus of Panama in Central America, from the Spanish, captured some looted ...